Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, and a hearty plate of blueberry pancakes or Belgian waffles isn’t complete without ...

Feb 23, 2025 Feb 23, 2025 Updated Feb 23, 2025 BELOIT — Anyone who has ever wondered how maple syrup is made only had to visit Big Hill Park on Saturday for the 17th Annual Maple Sugar Festival. Young ...

Learning about the art of maple sugaring, when the sap from trees is collected to make syrup while on a hike, a cooking demonstration, and a tasting Saturday at Robinson Nature Center. Lead ...

Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (March 24, 2025) -- Hundreds of community members learned the tree-to-table process of making syrup during Maple Days, March 17-22, in the LeRay Mansion Historic District at Fort Drum.

Maple syrup, naturally sweet with its lush notes of vanilla and caramel, is one of the first signs of spring. Now, maple’s lesser-known forest cousin birch is having its day. Nature’s unrequited gifts ...

Sap will soon be flowing from Michigan’s sugar maples, ready to be boiled down to pure maple syrup. Good, old-fashioned maple syrup is among the state’s oldest agricultural products, dating back to ...

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...

Maple Sugarin’ Festival, noon to 4 p.m. March 15. Hike through the maple forest, tap a tree, trade nature items for maple candies, and observe various means of syrup production. Complete a scavenger ...